Disintegrator.



YATENTED JULY 18, 1905.

DISINTEGRATOR. APILIOATION un APB..15,1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented July 18, 1905.

1V ILLIAM COX, OF HAMILTON, CANADA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 794,785, dated July 18, 1905,

Application filed April 15, 1904. Serial No. 203,313.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM Cox, a citi- Zen of Canada, and a resident of Hamilton,

in the county of Wentworth, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Disintegrators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in disin'tegrators in which a stationary casing is provided with a corrugated ring forming a part of the same, an opening in the lower part of the ring, an adjustable slide to cover or partiallycover the opening, and a disk provided with beaters adapted to revolve in the ring, and a door with a corrugated ring on the side of the casing.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide a disintegrator capable of disintegrating various kinds of spices and other material, and especially spices of an oily nature; second, to provide a disintegrator with a stationary corrugated ring having an opening and means for closing and partially closing the opening; third, to provide certain beaters on the rotary disk to thoroughly disintegrate the material; fourth, to afford facilities for opening and closing the opening in the corrugated ring, and, fifth, to provide a machine specially adapted to disintegrate material of an oily nature. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the stationary casing of the disintegrator with stationary corrugated ring, the rotary disk, and the door, also the framework of the machine, with shaft and pulley for revolving the disk. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the casing with the hinged door thrown wide open to show the interior of the casing, a part of which is broken away to show more fully the interior. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail elevation of a part of the rotary disk and Fig. 4 is a detail plan of Fig. 3, showing the taper of the beater-teeth.

Similar letters and figures refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents the framework of the machine, C the horizontal shaft in suitable bearings B of the machine, and D said frame.

the drive-pulley on said shaft and between the bearings B. The casing 2 forms a part of the stationary frame A and is rigid with The shaft 0 extends in the casing 2, and the disk 3 is secured to the end of the shaft 0 in casing 2 and revolves with the shaft. The top of the casing 2 is of circular form and closed. The sides are vertical and open at the bottom, as shown.

The ring 4 is secured to the inner part of the casing 2, and the shaft 0 is in the center of the ring, which is corrugated on its inner circle that is, having internal corrugations 5 extending transversely across the ring. The lower part of the ring 4 has an opening 6, which is covered by a slidable door 7, which is capable of slidable movement on the periphery of the ring 4 to cover, to uncover, or to partially cover said opening 6 in the ring. The cover 7 is provided with lugs 8 to form a suitable recess or socket to contain a nut 9, which is screwed onto the horizontal threaded rod 10 in bearing 12 of the casing 2. The rod 10 passes through the slotted holes 13 of the lugs 8 and has an end collar 14. The outer end of the rod 10 has a hand-wheel 15 to revolve the rod 10, the nut 9 being retained in stationary position, but not rigidly confined between the lugs 8. When the wheel 15 is revolved, thedoor 7 is brought toward the righthand side and uncovers more or less the opening 6.

16 represents rests or guides for the door 7 to slide on. When the door 7 is closed, as shown, 'the material being disintegrated or ground, the grinding may be continued at will and the material confined in the machine until the door 7 is opened or partially opened to suit the special material being ground. Some material requires more grind ing than other material. Also a larger outlet is required for different kinds of material.

In reference to the rotary disk 3 previously mentioned the series of beaters 18 extend a little beyond the periphery of the disk and be positioned as required on the disk and secured thereto.

19 represents beaters on the front face of the disk 3, which rotate in proximity to the corrugated rim or flange 20, which is on the inner side of the hinged door 21 of the casing 2. The rims 20 and 22 of the door 21 are suitably corrugated to suit the beater-teeth 19 and 19 on the disk 3.

II is the hopper or inlet through the door 21 to admit the material to be disintegrated, and the opening 6 in the ring 4 is the regulated outlet for the disintegrated material. It will be noticed that the beaters 18 and 19 of the rotary disk 3 are divided into or comprise a suitable number of teeth of desired sizeand pitch in order to disintegrate the material more effectively.

The door 21 is hinged at, 23 to the casing 2 of the machine.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The material to be disintegrated enters the hopper II and passes between the heaters 19 of the revolving disk 3 and the corrugated rims 20 and 22 of the door 21, thence between the heaters 18 and the ring 4, and so on until the slidable door 7 is opened, thence through the opening 6 of the ring 4, then through the lower open part of the casing 2.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a disintegrator, the combination with a casing, of an internally-corrugated ring in the casing having a discharge-opening in its lower portion only, guides, a sliding gate moving in said guides and having perforated lugs or ears, a screw-threaded operating-rod ournaled in the casing and turning in said perforated lugs, a nut between the lugs in which the screw-threads of the rod turn, a rotary member in the casing, and beaters on'said rotary member which are located inside the said ring.

2. In a disintegrator, the combination with a casing, of a corrugated ring therein, a rotary member, and beaters secured to the rotary member and located adjacent the corrugations of said ring, said beaters having grooves or channels.

' WILLIAM COX. Witnesses:

JOHN H. I-IEN'DRY, Ms. M. SHEPARD. 

